About average; acceptable.
1Boxed some at odd moments; was counted fair to middling.
2Allow me to deliver one of my own: you have a fair to middling mind.
3Now, that's w'at I call fair to middling.
4The men are fair to middling.
5The sailors smacked their lips over it once or twice, and pronounced it "from fair to middling."
6Without the arrival, Aviva's figures for 2015 would have been fair to middling in tricky conditions for all financial companies.
7It was just sunset, and with a fair to middling breeze, dead aft, we stood still in the rapid current.
9It does a fair to middling job processing my dinner into shit, but other than that, it clearly does not know shit.
10In my many discussions with Beckett on the publication of Dream of Fair to Middling Women .
11" Fair to middling well," said Ol' Mistah Buzzard, with a twinkle in his eyes.
12"Pretty fair to middling vague," said Yerkes, "but"-judicially-"almostworthinvestigating!"
13Between May 1931 and July 1932 Samuel Beckett wrote a novel called Dream of Fair to Middling Women.
14"He's a fair to middling neighbor, isn't he?"
15" Fair to middling, sir," the constable said.